The traditional view of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) is that it is a "declarative memory system": necessary for long-term episodic memory but not other domains of cognition. Is that really true? A thread of how there is no such thing as a dedicated "episodic memory system"
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The Moralization of Mechanical Objectivity Few quotes from Daston & Galisonās (1992) paper: āThe image of objectivityā www.jstor.org/stable/2928741 š§µ
I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published @PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...#CognitivePsychology#Motivation#Effort#Foraging#DecisionMaking š§µ
New paper published today in Psych Science (@PsychScience)! tl;dr ā evidence for an explicit working memory system for motor actions, with two dissociable "codes": one tied to the acting limb, and one more abstract (though not likely equatable to spatial WM). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is canceling culture. In Florida, and as part of an effort to prevent students from ever thinking about diversity, equity, or inclusion, public colleges and universities can no longer count "Principles of Sociology" as a gen-ed class. www.thedailybeast.com/florida-bans...
The stateās Board of Education said replacing the class will spare students from being exposed to āradical woke ideologies.ā